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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by johannes1234321 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:43AM (#37200211)
Aside from competency as a reason there is also cost. Dropping all that old media reduces storage cost.

The connection to the link preview subsystem might be, that they tried to get rid of the old media system.

Just for speculation ...

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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by Paul-Craft on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:56AM (#37200324)
There's also the fact that the service formerly known as Twitter is running on a skeleton crew. This could easily lead to a buildup in cruft, undetected or unnoticed system errors, or any number of maintenance issues that could result in something like this.
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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by hedora on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:09PM (#37200463)
I like to think they cut costs by lopping letters off the word twitter until all they had left was a “t”, and then some bozo walked up and kicked the remaining character over.
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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by throwaw1yyy on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:06PM (#37201531)
site runs better since his takeover despite what the haters say. I have a large follower account - responsiveness has improved.

There are downsides, with new features, algo changes etc but overall it’s been getting better.

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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by seba_dos1 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:32PM (#37201770)
We all have access to Twitter and can see its downfall with our own eyes.
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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by throwaw1yyy on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:27PM (#37214183)
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1693095184597151822?s=20

Mark Cuban seems to agree, and I am also a heavy user seeing the same thing.

What in particular are you seeing a proof of a downfall?

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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by sundaeofshock on Sunday August 20, 2023 @03:56PM (#37202433)
Dude, I don’t think Elon is going to see this.
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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by throwaw1yyy on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:29PM (#37214203)
I could care less about Elon

https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1693095184597151822?s=20

Here’s Mark Cuban saying the tech/responsiveness has improved. Does he seem like the kinda guy who needs to suck up to anyone? A guy with fuckyu levels of money?

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Re:X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:03PM (#37225611)
Amazing what a sudden, drastic decrease in user activity will do for a site's response time.
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